Now this was more like it (see post below for sad contrast).
The entire mixed grade 1/2/3 classroom put on a very last minute play for the parents, and it was fabulous. I loved it because it was clearly the students’ production. They each acted out an animal of their choice in a verrrry loosely scripted story about animals in the woods. They had on costumes that they’d made themselves from whatever they had at home, they banged on musical intruments made from recycled trash, and in general acted like 6, 7 and 8 year olds without much direction. Chaotic, noisy, and probably painful for anyone who wasn’t biologically related to at least one of the performers, but truly a cooperative child-led production, and as such, brilliant.
